David Briggs
Senior Site Reliability Engineer at Google
Waterloo, Ontario, Canada
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Top SchoolDavid Briggs is a Senior Site Reliability Engineer with 11 years of experience building and operating scalable, secure systems, currently ensuring the availability of core cryptographic infrastructure at Google. A University of Waterloo CS graduate, he transitioned from software engineering to SRE and brings deep hands-on experience across cloud-native architectures, containers, and distributed systems from roles at Google, Splunk, OpenText, and several startups. He has engineered high-impact solutions such as 20x API speedups via caching, container orchestration and service discovery abstractions, and AI model training deployment pipelines that emphasize secure, easy-to-manage infrastructure. Comfortable across languages and platforms (Scala, Python, GRPC, Redis, AWS, Kubernetes), he combines pragmatic system design with a focus on reliability and operational excellence. Colleagues value his ability to translate complex technical tradeoffs into practical, documented designs and automated solutions. Based in Waterloo, he pairs enterprise-scale SRE rigor with startup agility and a continual curiosity about complex systems.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Highschool Diploma, Highschool Diploma at Denis O'Connor Catholic HighschoolComputer Science, Computer Science at University of Waterloo
English
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Github Skills (84)
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browser10
hashmap10
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linux9
io-uring9
threaded9
hashtable9
bootstrap9
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concurrent-map9
connection-pool9
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Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
dpbriggs/growable-bloom-filters
Oct 2019 - Jun 2021
Safe, Growable Bloom Filters in Rust (with serde)
Contributions:11 reviews, 26 commits, 4 PRs in 1 year 8 months
serdebloomfiltersrustbloom-filters
dpbriggs/dpbriggs-blog
Jan 2019 - Apr 2022
My personal website and blog, written in Rust, Tera, and Bootstrap.
Contributions:77 commits, 3 PRs, 61 pushes in 3 years 3 months
rustorg-moderocketterabootstrap
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